I began building gaming rigs and overclocking them 4 years ago. I purchased a Dell xps 700 and was not at all impressed with it’s performance. I proceeded to upgrade everything from bottom of the line to state of the art (for the time) right down to the h2c cpu water cooler, dumb right? I managed to overclock the quad to 3.85GHz stable and achieve a 3dmark06 score of almost 21k, at the time one of the top two dells in the world. I still was not impressed as Crysis was not playable at 19×12. A month later I sold the rig on eBay.

It was time to build the “warbird”. The next step for me was to take out a small mortgage, lol, and buy the best of what I thought was out there. Like most of you, I made some good choices and bad, but with a little luck, she came together well. I began my oc forum debut at a little quaint website known as eocf. There the warbird dominated the Crysis bench thread for well over a year as well as winning the first “rig of the month”. Gradually I noticed that many of my friends were no longer around. With a little digging and a tip from a Vulcan, I found they had left to form NBOC. It was clear to me that I was through with noobville, so I joined the No Borders Overclocking Club and have never looked back.

With the advent of NBOC and our HWBot team, I soon realized that I had become a bencher, not so much a gamer any longer. Our team has managed to claim the number 2 rank in the USA and I am very proud to be a part of such a great group of guys. I was anointed as the Bot coach for our newer members, and that has enabled me to forge true friendships with each of our team members…

During that time, the warbird has undergone continuous upgrades to this point. Where I started with a 790i ultra, she now boasts a e759 Classified. For GPU’s, she started with 9800gtx sli and now sports
280GTX-HC tri-SLI,..and the list of CPU’s looks something like this, a QX9650 to an E8600 to an i7 965 to finally the i7 920do which I adore. Its all happened with the PC Power & Cooling TurboCool 1200 for a power plant, all within the Silverstone TJ-10BW ESA case, which has and will remain the hull of the Warbird till the end of her days.

Unfortunately, as many of you know, a case is difficult at best for benching. Also there are very real limits to how much you can achieve under water cooling…which leads us to my new project.

Under the wise advice of many of my brothers, (MaadDawg for the Banchetto, ocgmj for the w3520, Splave for the SS, and Kal-EL for providing my pots,… just to mention a few), I have began to assemble an escort battleship for the warbird. This rig will be a boint killer and will fetch many cups for the Empire in the days to come. For more on this build, please watch for a post entitled “The Empire’s new Prototype” under the rigs & racks category.

Until then, Thanks for visiting pcwormhole.com. I hope you enjoy the articles from our fantastic group of overclockers. I look forward to what the future holds for our team as well as for our sites and until then, Enjoy the Journey…

I would first like to thank RomDominance for the opportunity to blog here with this great bunch of guys.  Many of you may have seen me around at xtremesystems, overclockaholics, i4memory or other various forums around the net.   For those of you whom havent met me yet, let me give you a short introduction.

My name is Jamie and I’m 27 years old.  I live and work in the Buffalo NY area, running a local computer repair business and an online ebay store.  I’ve been into computers from the time I could walk as a little kid.  In fact I could type my name on a computer before I could write it!  My father was a computer programmer and got me into hardware and games at a very young age.  Been an addict ever since!  I also run a small Overclocking team that is part of the PURE overclocking team.  Its called the Uberclocker OC Team and we have a small blog where I also post at.  Members include myself, Slovnaft, Chispy and Pauld5999.

My first gaming PC was an Apple IIe (no hard disk, just two floppy’s) and Ive owned many since…  From a 286 16Mhz playing Wing Commander to my current i7/classified rigs waiting for some DX11 action.

I first got into overclocking during the end of the AMD reign.  I wasnt concerned with benchmarking, it was mainly just to squeeze some extra performance out of lower end cpus to save some cash.  Then in late 2007 I got bitten with the benchmarking bug which led to heavy hardware purchases and extreme cooling.  Funny how this hobby usually starts out as a way to save some cash, but results in an expensive addiction that rivals heroin

In 2008 I skipped from air cooling right to LN2.  Never messed with water or phase, and only used dry ice a few times.  Picked up a 50L dewar and cpu, nb and 2x gpu pots from Duniek.  Earlier this year I purchased an F1EE cpu pot from Kingpin.  Been cold clockin ever since

Ive recently been on a quest to max out my hwbot hwboints, and in doing so have broken back into the top 100.  Currently ranked 75th I hope to hit 600 points by the end of 2009.

I will be posting the results of my OC adventures, and some hardware reviews too.  Looking forward to working with everyone here, to make pcwormhole a top destination for OC related news and reviews!

Out of disaster triumphs pure pwnage. I wont mention any names but after a fallout on a previous forum a band of brothers stuck together and NBOC was born.  The cream of the crop was then invited to join No borders OC team. Benching fever spread like wildfire and my wallet has never been the same. You guys on NBOC are what drive me to bench my heart out and I appreciate you all for that.

Being a youngster (22) my first system was an abit and +3200 754 with 6600gt 128mb agp GPU setup. After running aq3 and 3dmark01 2 billion times I had decided I had found a new hobby and future life long love.

My favorite setup in the last year or so had to have been my 3xgtx-260 216sp 55nm rig.  After new TIM they had no problems at all running 792/1584/1205 for benching. Currently running a single gtx-295 but have yet to really push it. (Thank witch)

A couple things Id like to work on in the future would be moving out of this apartment and into a house so I can really start hitting some global points with LN2 and or a Cascade/dual stage phase unit. You can only get so far with a SS but what I have learned from using it is just incredible.

Really appreciate this site ROM. Big ups to you, your bro and OC for sure. I look forward to posting in the future. PAAYCE!